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Wally Stuck on Downloading Software

Wally is stuck on Downloading software. I tried it both on 61.5 and 72 and it stays stuck on waiting to download. I unplugged it multiple times and waited over 2 hours each time at the screen and nothing happens. How do I fix this?
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The Wally is replacing a 211k. I use it on a separate dish. I still can't get the Wally to work.
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Dishusercan said:
The Wally is replacing a 211k. I use it on a separate dish. I still can't get the Wally to work.
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What kind of dish is the Wally connected too?
Obviously 1.2k , but its a Dish Pro Plus correct ?
and not the DISH Pro Hybrid...

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It's connected to a Winegard carryout mp1
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Dishusercan said:
It's connected to a Winegard carryout mp1
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Maybe someone else can confirm, but, I thought you have to use a traditional Dish when doing the initial installation or Activation of a new receiver?

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This is how I got around being stuck on the download.

I got the Wally and the X2 from different places. Connected them, and started down the setup wizard. The X2 went off and found the 3 satellites in the western arc and then went to the download page and Wally hung stating 'waiting on download'. Little blue squares were scanning across the bottom of the screen. I gave it 90 minutes, no progress...

Braved powering off the Wally and hooked it up to my fixed 1000.2 antenna at home (black logo). Wally started the same process, found all three western satellites quickly, and got to the 'waiting on download' step. Within a minute or two it changed to 'downloading' and the flashy blue squares were gone and Wally showed a progress bar. It took several minutes, but the progress bar was working it's way across the screen. Once done, Wally did it's reboot and then successfully went through the rest of the startup wizard steps until it got to the Ethernet check. I wasn't connected so I ok'd through that and Wally was ready to 'activate'.

Powered Wally off, reconnected to the X2. We went through the startup wizard, again finding all the western arc, made it past the downloading step and got to the activate. Called Dish, added Wally to my home account and Dish sent the activate signal. Got an 'activating, may take 10-15 minutes' screen on the Wally. After a few minutes, the X2 started oscillating back and forth +/- 10 degrees or so, no activation. Dish customer service transferred me to Dish tech help. Repeated the same steps with same results. Finally I suggested that I re-connect to the home antenna and we try activating it there. Wally ran through his steps, Dish sent the activation. We waited for several minutes, Dish was about to give up and send a technician and suddenly the activation started. We were now at the 'activating may take 10-15 minutes screen. Again waited several minutes, at least the 10-15, Dish was again scheduling a technician and suddenly Wally completed the activation. Dish was happy to get off the phone.

Reconnected the Wally to the X2. The wally skipped around his startup but let me select number of receivers (1), western/eastern arc, and location. Went into a check switch mode, and the X2 found his satellites and the progress bar was full clear across showing 100%. Then a LONG wait while the Wally still showed check switch. I let it sit, went and did something else, and several minutes later came back and TV was up and running.

I restarted and tried the eastern arc. Wally started the check switch. At first X2 looked like he was looking to the west, but then swung around and found the 3 eastern arc satellites. Again the progress bar for check switch was across the screen. Another LONG wait while Wally still showed check switch. Again I left it and several minutes later came back and TV was up and running on the eastern arc.

The Wally / X2 combination has been working ever since. And either the wait times have gotten shorter, or my patience longer...
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LostInTheDark said:
This is how I got around being stuck on the download.

I got the Wally and the X2 from different places. Connected them, and started down the setup wizard. The X2 went off and found the 3 satellites in the western arc and then went to the download page and Wally hung stating 'waiting on download'. Little blue squares were scanning across the bottom of the screen. I gave it 90 minutes, no progress...

Braved powering off the Wally and hooked it up to my fixed 1000.2 antenna at home (black logo). Wally started the same process, found all three western satellites quickly, and got to the 'waiting on download' step. Within a minute or two it changed to 'downloading' and the flashy blue squares were gone and Wally showed a progress bar. It took several minutes, but the progress bar was working it's way across the screen. Once done, Wally did it's reboot and then successfully went through the rest of the startup wizard steps until it got to the Ethernet check. I wasn't connected so I ok'd through that and Wally was ready to 'activate'.

Powered Wally off, reconnected to the X2. We went through the startup wizard, again finding all the western arc, made it past the downloading step and got to the activate. Called Dish, added Wally to my home account and Dish sent the activate signal. Got an 'activating, may take 10-15 minutes' screen on the Wally. After a few minutes, the X2 started oscillating back and forth +/- 10 degrees or so, no activation. Dish customer service transferred me to Dish tech help. Repeated the same steps with same results. Finally I suggested that I re-connect to the home antenna and we try activating it there. Wally ran through his steps, Dish sent the activation. We waited for several minutes, Dish was about to give up and send a technician and suddenly the activation started. We were now at the 'activating may take 10-15 minutes screen. Again waited several minutes, at least the 10-15, Dish was again scheduling a technician and suddenly Wally completed the activation. Dish was happy to get off the phone.

Reconnected the Wally to the X2. The wally skipped around his startup but let me select number of receivers (1), western/eastern arc, and location. Went into a check switch mode, and the X2 found his satellites and the progress bar was full clear across showing 100%. Then a LONG wait while the Wally still showed check switch. I let it sit, went and did something else, and several minutes later came back and TV was up and running.

I restarted and tried the eastern arc. Wally started the check switch. At first X2 looked like he was looking to the west, but then swung around and found the 3 eastern arc satellites. Again the progress bar for check switch was across the screen. Another LONG wait while Wally still showed check switch. Again I left it and several minutes later came back and TV was up and running on the eastern arc.

The Wally / X2 combination has been working ever since. And either the wait times have gotten shorter, or my patience longer...
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And there it is , Appears I heard correctly that a Receiver must be activated from a Normal satellite dish.
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DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 10/28/2026

The TPN Map Excel Presents all DIRECTV Channels:
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National (50-States or wide/NAT+PR beams)
Local (Local-Into-Local or narrow/Spot beams)
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Additional tabs provide:​
OTA the (Over-The-Air) Database
VOD (Video On_Demand) Records
Offline Records
Engr Records
Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
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Domestic Satellites
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8​

Understanding the TPN Map

Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions
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DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Nov 04 2026

Comparison of Transponder Data for Nov 04 2026 vs Oct 28 2026:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Changes to the use of defined transponders:


2 Previously unused Transponders with current APG records::
Net 15 TID 12 Beam NAT is a National Transponder on D12@103ca, TPN 13
Net 15 TID 17 Beam NAT + PR is a National Transponder on D15@103ca, TPN 18

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​
National​
Spot Beams​
Count​
Change​
Count​
Change​
4K​
4​
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HD​
266​
2​
1449​
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SD mpeg4​
144​
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194​
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SD mpeg2​
433​
-1​
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RB​
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Audio​
89​
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Push​
26​
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Slate​
19​
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1​
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TEST Streams​
National​
Spot Beams​
Count​
Change​
Count​
Change​
4K​
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HD​
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1​
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SD mpeg4​
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SD mpeg2​
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RB​
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Engr Work​
56​
18​
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The PID count Excel workbook provides much more count detail.

Newly updated tables of Streams on each transponder are available in the DataDigesters TPN Grids

More details of changes in individual channels will follow in the Weekly Analysis
and Gary Toma's Domestic TPN Map Excel files
Reshuffle setup ?
Weekly Analysis soon
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Prep for More TPN swaps

NewsMix -> ElectionHQ

MLBEI -> NBALP in the 740s

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110/119 Listings Post 129 Transition (Updated 11/01/2026)

Over the past year I have been tracking the changes on Western Arc. The past 3 months have had a lot of changes that I posted in the other MPEG2 Western Arc shutdown thread. Now that 129 is (basically) out of commission, here is where Western Arc stands. This is just a national channel list, (no local channels) based off what I can see and what others have contributed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me come up with the locations of some of the channels – I would try and list all of you out, but I know I would forget someone! As has been suggested in other parts of the forum, it would be great to collect the spotbeam data for those who could contribute!

A couple of pieces of info:
  • Out of the 64 transponders between 110/119, there are currently 50 transponders that Dish is licensed to use. 22 are Spotbeams, 28 are ConUS transponders (14 transponders are licensed to DirecTV and Dish doesn't have access to them)
  • Those 28 ConUS transponders are divided as follows:
    • 10 are dedicated to National HD channels (ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc). Dish is maxing out at 16 HD channels per transponder (note – in an earlier post I said there was one transponder with 17 HD channels, that was an error on my part. When I double checked my listings, one channel changed transponders). Before the transition, there was a maximum of 14 HD channels per transponder.
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    • 2 are a mixture HD PPV Movies/4k channels
    • 3 are set aside for HD Sports channels that are only on for live games (NBA League Pass, the PAC 12 alternate channels, some PPV events, etc); 3 SD PPV Sports Channels are there as well.
    • 7 are for SD and/or music channels. Dish is maxing out at 26 SD channels per transponder thus far on the SD transponders.
    • 5 transponders on 110 I have no channels listed but Dish operates. (they are labeled as ConUS on my chart below) There are other things that could be on those transponders, like RV Distant Networks, internal testing channels, etc, that I can't see. They might be able to be used for additional content, but I am not sure exactly what is on those transponders.
There are two transponders that have lower than normal SD channels – 110, TP 21 and 119, TP 19. Previously those transponders contained the programming guides that get downloaded from the satellite when the receivers download EPG. I assume that is where the programming guides are still downloaded from, thus less channels there.

When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.

Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
  • During this migration from 129, Dish converted 7 ConUS transponders on 119 into Spotbeams – that is how they ended up fitting on all the HD locals that used to be on 129. (for those interested, TP 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 are the ones that used to be ConUS on 119 that are now Spotbeam)
  • Removed almost all SD duplicate channels that are offered in HD
  • Converted remaining SD channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4
  • There are also 2 subtle things that changed from the HD channel perspective
    • At the beginning of the transition, Dish decreased the number of PPV Movie channels – prior to this transition the PPV channels HD PPV movies were 502-522; now they are 502-517.
    • At the beginning of April when MLB, NBA, and NHL regular seasons were all going on at the same time and this transition began, there were a ton of games "joined in progress" for the HD feeds. That wasn't common since the days before the full time HD RSN's. The reason for that was prior to the transition, Dish had 4 transponders set aside for HD Sports – 2 transponders was the bandwidth set aside from the HD RSN's before Dish dropped the RSN's, then 2 transponders were for alternate channels. Now we are down to 3 transponders for HD sports.
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With the extra hour I had this morning, I updated the listings. Another month has passed, and nothing has moved off 110 to 119 for the national channels. I really thought those handful of transponders on 119 would have been populated with the national channels from 110, but no change.

Can someone who has a Hopper tell me if the 4k channels are still on 110 and if so, what transponder?
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zippyfrog said:
With the extra hour I had this morning, I updated the listings. Another month has passed, and nothing has moved off 110 to 119 for the national channels. I really thought those handful of transponders on 119 would have been populated with the national channels from 110, but no change.

Can someone who has a Hopper tell me if the 4k channels are still on 110 and if so, what transponder?
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They appear to be on 110, transponder 8.
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Bobby said:
They appear to be on 110, transponder 8.
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Thanks! I do have my listing correct then.
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Dish has officially removed all the locals from 119 and they are all on 110 now. TP 02, 04, 06, 08, 10 were all functioning as Spotbeams as of last week, but now they are ConUS.

This means all 21 transponders that Dish has access to at 119 are now ConUS.
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zippyfrog said:
Dish has officially removed all the locals from 119 and they are all on 110 now.
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Might be a silly question, but does this mean ALL 29 TP's on 110 are positively spot beams now?
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Might be a silly question, but does this mean ALL 29 TP's on 110 are positively spot beams now?
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Nope - TP 1-13 are still ConUS on 110. Which is crazy...there are so many different spotbeams on the new 110 satellite compared to the older 110 or 119. Now, someone can correct me if I am wrong on this - but aren't there two satellites at 110 right now? If so, it looks like TP 1-13 are coming from the old satellite at 110 and 14 onward are spotbeams on the new satellite.
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